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Hey everyone!
5 years ago, as I was still a student, I built Gladys: A Jarvis-like home automation software that allowed me to control my house and automate many things in my life, just thanks to a Raspberry Pi. From my lights, music, coffee machine: anything could be automated and integrated into a nice scenario.
I released the software for completely free and open-source, and quickly I saw lots of interests in the project. Years after years, I improved the software with the help of my awesome community, to bring it where we are now.
Today, we now have more than 35k downloads of Gladys and more than 3 000 people in the online community.
Since last year I started monetizing the project so that I can work full time on it. I did 20k$ in revenue the first year, and it's still growing.
I have a new product linked to Gladys that's going to be live soon for 9.99€/month, and I can't wait to release it online!
Don't hesitate to reach me if you have any question :)

@joey_tawadrous Hey! Thanks for your message :)
It's already monetized since 1.5 years! On the past year, I did 20k$ in revenue on the project by selling an ebook + video pack about Gladys (only in french, that's why you don't see it on the website). All the revenue is public here => https://gladysproject.com/open
But I'm now launching an international product, the Gladys Gateway, which will be available for 9.99€/month in the coming weeks.
If you want to see what's the Gladys Gateway, have a look at this Tweet Thread => https://twitter.com/pierregilles...